Washington butcher slits the necks of family’s beloved pet pigs while they were out in grisly mix-up – before offering her some of the meat as compensation

Two beloved pigs were shot dead and almost turned into meat after a butcher took a wrong turn and arrived at a family’s hobby farm.

Natalie and Nathan Gray ran home to their property in Port Orchard, Washington, after their surveillance system alerted them to intruders on May 1 around 1:30 p.m.

They arrived to find Betty and Patty, their two-year-old Kunekune pigs, dead and a butcher and his friend about to hoist the carcasses to drain the blood.

The butcher realized he had made a terrible mistake, but the pigs were dead and he offered to give them the meat for free as compensation. This did not go down well.

‘[They] callously offered to slaughter Betty and Patty for free, as if [the Grays] would even think about eating them,” reads a lawsuit filed by the family.

Beloved pigs Betty and Patty were shot and nearly turned into meat after a butcher took a wrong turn and arrived at a family’s hobby farm

Natalie Gray said she saw them in an ad from a local breeder and thought they would be perfect for her family’s pet-only Gray Acres Farm

The shocking mix-up was detailed in the family’s legal complaint filed May 30 in Washington Superior Court in Kitsap County.

Jonathan Hines, from local farmer George Meats, had been asked to slaughter two pigs on a farm on the road where the Grays lived.

Hines’ customer was away, so he asked the butcher to go onto the property, kill the pigs behind the barn and take their bodies away for processing.

But Hines, 29, and his friend Dillon Baker, 30, who he enlisted to help, entered the wrong address into the GPS and turned right instead of left.

They drove into the Grays’ farm, broke into the pen the pigs share with eight ducks, and shot Betty and Patty – the gunfire echoing through the family’s camera system.

The lawsuit alleged that Hines, Baker and farmer George Meats “recklessly inflicted serious and serious emotional distress,” along with gross negligence and trespass.

The family demanded damages “representing the intrinsic value of Betty and Patty.”

“The law treats Betty and Patty no differently than Golden Retrievers or Norwegian Forest Cats,” said their attorney Adam Karp.

Natalie said her two daughters, aged 12 and 9, were so devastated that the eldest cried when she found out and her sister refuses to take any more animals for fear they too would be killed.

Natalie said she was sad to see her pigs suddenly dead after caring for them, and her daughters were inconsolable

Natalie said her two daughters, aged 12 and 9, were so devastated that the eldest cried when she found out and her sister refused to take any more animals for fear they too would be killed.

The lawsuit called Betty and Patty “beloved companion pigs of almost three years” who were adopted in March 2022 to join cats, dogs, ducks and a chicken.

Natalie said she saw them in an ad from a local breeder and thought they would be perfect for her family’s Gray Acres Farm, which only keeps pets.

‘They were cute. They were so cute. They were the size of a small dog. We haven’t had them before. Not eating meat taught me that they were just like dogs and super fun to have, and I wanted my girls to have pigs,” she said. Kiro7.

“Every morning I would go out with them and make sure they got the attention they needed before I went to school, feeding them, fresh water and making sure their bath was full.”

Natalie said she was saddened to see them suddenly dead after caring for them, and her daughters were inconsolable.

“I came around the corner and both Patty and Betty were dead in the cage. And Betty already had chains wrapped around her feet. “I called the police,” she said.

‘Now my youngest, she doesn’t want that (new animals). She said, well, what happens when someone comes over? I don’t want this to happen like what happened to Patty and Betty.”

The butcher realized he had made a terrible mistake, but the pigs were dead and he offered to give them the meat for free as compensation

Patty and Betty are buried on the property next to the family’s other deceased pet livestock, with small headstones

Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies responded to Natalie’s 911 call and an incident report found there was no “malice” from the butcher.

Hines told police he “messed up when he didn’t enter the address into his (Google) maps,” according to the report, and admitted that he “did everything” and Baker “was only there to help him” when he found the pigs shot.

Hines said his “heart pounded” when Nathan and Natalie confronted him and he realized he was on the wrong farm.

‘I didn’t know what to do. “I just sat there a little bit shocked,” he told the newspaper WashingtonPost.

But he defended himself by saying he wouldn’t have mixed up the properties if the Grays had left their gate closed.

Hines dragged the pigs into the woods behind the farm and scooped the blood-stained dirt into a garbage can.

Then he left to slaughter the pigs he was supposed to kill that day.

Patty and Betty are buried on the property next to the family’s other deceased pet livestock, with small headstones.